{"id":46,"date":"2008-06-04T22:39:51","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T03:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=46"},"modified":"2008-06-04T22:39:51","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T03:39:51","slug":"lincoln-douglas-debates-2008-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2008\/06\/04\/lincoln-douglas-debates-2008-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln-Douglas debates &amp; 2008 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Plouffe, Democratic Senator Barack Obama\u2019s campaign manager, had an interesting response on Wednesday (6\/04) to Republican Senator John McCain\u2019s proposal to hold ten town hall meetings before the November 2008 election. According to the Associated Press, \u201cPlouffe said\u2026the campaign would recommend a less-structured, lengthier exchange more in line with the historic Lincoln-Douglas debates.\u201d See <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5gaUSEBy1Nl6mRTdnvXRy30DivA4wD913HID00\" target=\"_blank\">this report<\/a> for the full story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong><br \/>\nMarc Ambinder, who blogs over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Atlantic<\/a>, has <a href=\"http:\/\/marcambinder.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2008\/06\/just_asking_5.php\" target=\"_blank\">posted <\/a>McCain\u2019s letter and Plouffe\u2019s response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Plouffe, Democratic Senator Barack Obama\u2019s campaign manager, had an interesting response on Wednesday (6\/04) to Republican Senator John McCain\u2019s proposal to hold ten town hall meetings before the November 2008 election. According to the Associated Press, \u201cPlouffe said\u2026the campaign would recommend a less-structured, lengthier exchange more in line with the historic Lincoln-Douglas debates.\u201d See [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19th-century-1840-1880","category-recent-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}